Tom Fiedler, who wrote the story that effectively ended Hart’s presidential bid, sent the film’s creators a letter requesting that they “acknowledge that the film’s depiction of me is essentially a fiction.”

The film tells the true story of a Bronx bouncer and the famed jazz pianist he is hired to drive and safeguard during a 1962 tour of racially segregated cities in the South. That unlikely friendship would never have made it to the big screen were it not for another, according to Currie.